From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INFO on add-ons Date: 04 Sep 2002 14:02:11 +0900 Sender: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031115754 3355 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2002 05:02:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:02:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, xemacs-design@xemacs.org Return-path: Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org ([207.96.1.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mSJE-0000rz-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 07:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from gwyn.tux.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA10920; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:04:05 -0400 Original-Received: (from turnbull@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA01299 for xemacs-design-mailman@xemacs.org; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: (from mail@localhost) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA01243 for turnbull@tux.org; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:03:13 -0400 Original-Received: from TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp [202.32.8.202]) by gwyn.tux.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA01013 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 01:03:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailgate4.nec.co.jp ([10.7.69.193]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id g84532404060; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:03:02 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mailsv4.nec.co.jp (mailgate51.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.196]) by mailgate4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) with ESMTP id g8452JI03027; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:02:58 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.30.114.133]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.6/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id g8452Hh26586; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:02:18 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.10.2+Sun/3.7Wlsi_mx_6.0) with ESMTP id g8452Bs24573; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:02:11 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by mcspd15.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 67CC236F4; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:02:11 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 15 X-XEmacs-List: design Errors-To: xemacs-design-admin@xemacs.org X-BeenThere: xemacs-design@xemacs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of design and features for XEmacs. List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.xemacs.design:1376 gmane.emacs.devel:7433 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7433 Eli Zaretskii writes: > > Perhaps what we ought to do is make it easier to produce a coherent > > info node(s) from a package's existing information. > > Adding index entries is a significant task of writing a good manual. > Without an index, a manual cannot be used as a reference. Indexation is > still largely a human task that cannot be easily automated (although some > help here would be nice). There's no reason why indexing command couldn't be embedded in doc-strings/comments. -Miles -- Run away! Run away!